A few ants found their way into your kitchen. You used a sheet of paper to carry them back outside. For you, this was just a small act of kindness; for the ants, this was a religious experience. The colony is now building a cathedral in your honour.

You swerve to avoid a hedgehog one day and soon forget all about it.

Unknown to you, the hedgehog remembers your kindness. It spent its life watching over you in secret. When old age caught up with the hedgehog, its ghost moved into your home to continue its vigil.

If you use writing dares to help you get writing, The Muse of Last Resort (that’s this blog) has you covered.

There’s an entire site section dedicated to nothing but writing dares.

Here are six picks from the extensive catalogue of writing dares.

And one bonus dare that was too funny to leave out:

Check out all the dares here.

In reply to OpenMentions asking, Do you use writing dares for NaNoWriMo?

They know what happened here 18 years ago. They keep it to themselves as no one would believe them anyway.

The town you grew up in doesn’t exist.